Appointed coach of PSG this summer, Luis Enrique suffered a terrible family drama when he lost his nine-year-old daughter in August 2019. A terrible episode for the tactician who nevertheless draws strength from it.
In June 2019, Luis Enrique announced to everyone’s surprise that he was leaving his post as Spain coach to ” force majeure family reason“, as the Spanish Federation then indicated. Two months later, the man came out of silence and posted a message on social networks to announce terrible news. ” Our daughter Xana died this afternoon (Thursday August 29, editor’s note) at the age of 9, after having fought intensely for five months against an osteosarcoma. “An atrocious drama for the father who has since learned to live with it. But such a scar can never be totally reabsorbed, the tactician carries it deep inside him. Even if it means making it a strength… Perhaps beneficial to Paris Saint-Germain.
It is in any case the opinion of Dominique Sévérac who approached the painful subject Wednesday evening, on the set of the chain The Team. ” We have a coach who has experienced the worst drama that can exist on Earth. He lost a child. And so it changes the software of the relationship to the world and the relationship to others. That is to say, since you’ve been through the worst, it’s not Kylian Mbappé, Lionel Messi, Neymar, Marco Verratti, whoever you want, who’s going to bother you. Because in fact, you know, football becomes so trivial and secondary, that it can make the real decisions.”
“He’s been through the worst”
Hence the journalist’s hope of seeing the Parisian coach achieve what his many predecessors failed to do. ” He will be a coach who will make decisions, who will be authoritarian when necessary, good dough when necessary because in his cortex, in his way of thinking, he has lived through the worst. Now, it’s not Paris Saint-Germain and its starlets who will bother him. The next few months will show whether or not Luis Enrique will have managed the small feat of taking control of the Parisian locker room.
